Yesterday me, Michelle, Jag and Jamie piled into Michelle’s vehicle and drove out to Liberty, NC for the Rising Meadow Farm Fest. I forgot my camera like a dumbass, but Michelle took some pictures and video.

We watched a sheepdog demonstration, ate lamb burgers (the most delicious, juicy ground lamb I’ve ever had, it beats the crap out of the ground lamb from grocery stores), ate homemade ice cream, listened to a Celtic band doing all the usual Irish pub standards, watched a woman spinning angora straight from her very patient bunny, and did some shopping.

I bought 2 yarns. The top one is wool/cotton/silk/sparkly handspun by Nola Rich, a very nice woman who owns some unusual limited-production all-metal spinning wheels made by Columbine. They look like this. The bottom yarn is Rising Meadows Farm Corriedale singles in spring greens and blues.

I bought some rovings as well. Clockwise from the top middle, 2 balls (2oz each) of Rising Meadow Farm Corriedale roving, ISeeSpots Farm Merino/Silk/Angora blend roving, ISeeSpots Farm black alpaca roving, a new bobbin for my spinning wheel (I was so happy that ISeeSpots is a Kromski dealer and brought a walnut stained bobbin with them!), and Three Waters Farm superfine merino/tencel roving in “Black Hollyhock”.

One of the Unique Sheep ladies was there, handing out little sample skeinlets of their sock yarns. I love their colorways.

It was a good time despite the really hot and humid weather.

During the drive I knitted a dishcloth in an experimental pattern. I wanted something mindless to work on, so I picked an easy pattern (eye of partridge) and gave it a 3-row garter stitch border. It did a great job of breaking up the variegated yarn, and gave a nice solid, squishy cloth, just like a sock heel. I’ll be making up a bunch more of these.